EATON SADDLE TO MT. LOWE AND SAN GABRIEL PEAK, SAN GABRIEL MTS MAY 2014PAGE ONE

Photographs by Michael Charters

This photo gallery includes pictures taken on two hikes along this trail to Mt. Lowe summit from Eaton Saddle on the Mt. Wilson Road. The first hike was organized by John Thompson and co-led by him and CNPS member Jane Tirrell and included Walt Fidler, Mickey Long, myself, and several other people, and took place on 5/10/14. The following week, I was joined by Tom Chester, Keir Morse, Adrienne Ballwey and Walt Fidler to do a follow-up. One of the goals of these hikes was to see the Harlequin lupine (Lupinus stiversii) that grows in this area but may have been planted originally back in the days of Ye Alpine Tavern. The above photo was taken on another hike on 5/13/14 to the summit of San Gabriel Peak and shows both the Mt. Lowe Road and running parallel to it and above the hiking trail. We walked down the road and came back on the trail. An asterisk next to the common name indicates a non-native species. See Tom Chester's flora of this area here.

Arching rock-cressBoechera arcuata
Brassicaceae

[Named after Danish botanist Tyge Wittrock Böcher, 1909-1983, authority on Arctic vegetation. The name should be pronounced BOO-ker-a.]